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The 2nd annual Christmas Show featuring the Fiesta Barbershop Chorus and
Pensacola Sound Sweet Adeline Chorus in cooperation with Thrivent
Financial for Lutherans was held in early December. Local quartets performing included Ad Hoc Singing
Committee, Omega, An Inside Straight, Glory Train and Ah Declare.
The concert was performed to benefit the Manna Food Bank and the
Association for Retarded Citizens. Admission to the concert
was free but patrons were asked to donate food or cash to either
of these organizations. The combined donations of the
patrons plus what was supplemented by Thrivent Financial for
Lutherans resulted in the donations of more than a ton of food to
the Food Bank and $1600 to ARC.
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Each December the Fiesta Barbershop Chorus embarks
on the Tannenbaum Express,
which is when we perform seasonal songs at local nursing homes,
retirement homes, and other establishments that might need some
seasonal cheering up. If a nursing home, retirement home, or
whatever would like to be included in our itinerary, email
us and we'll be happy to put you on the list
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| 2007 was the
fourth year of the Fiesta Barbershop
Chorus' Patriotic Parade. The Patriotic
Parade is similar to our Tannenbaum Express, except we sing
patriotic songs to residents of local retirement and assisted care
homes.
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If you would like your retirement, nursing, or
assisted-care home to be included in next summer's Patriotic Parade,
please select the Contact Us button
and email us, our coordinator will get in touch with your activity
director. Here is the Fiesta Chorus singing our National
Anthem.
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| Have you ever heard the Irish
Blessing sung in barbershop harmony? It'll give you goose bumps
from the tip of your toes to the top of your head. The Fiesta
Barbershop Chorus has a large repertoire of sacred songs that are
suitable for most denominations.
If your church would like to give your choir a
break and treat your parishioners to inspirational songs sung in
barbershop harmony, email the chorus and someone will contact you —
we promise. If you're concerned about privacy, all e-mail addresses will
be held in the strictest of confidence and will never be sold.
In 2007 the Fiesta Barbershop Chorus will be appearing at St. Paul's
Lutheran Church, 9th Ave., Pensacola, FL, on June 24 and at Northminster
Presbyterian Church, Nine Mile Road, Pensacola, on July 15.
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Every Thursday evening at 7:00 p.m. during the past 19
summers, folks have gathered at Seville Square in downtown
Pensacola for the Evenings in Olde
Seville Square concert series,
organized by the Pensacola
Heritage Foundation, and listened to some of Pensacola's
most incredible local talent. The concert series features
superb performances by the Pensacola Civic Band, McGuire's
Bagpipe Band, and, of course, the Fiesta Barbershop Chorus.
We're proud to say that the Fiesta Barbershop Chorus has been
part of this concert series for the majority of the past 19
years.
Around the third weekend of every September, the panhandle
chapters and quartets gather at the Timpoochee
4H Center in Niceville, Florida, for coaching and
fellowship. Camp Timpoochee is a picturesque camping complex
nestled on the shore of the Choctawhatchee Bay.
You stay two nights in comfortable, bunkbed-style,
air-conditioned cabins with private bathrooms and showers and
eat five meals prepared fresh by kitchen personnel. You also get
top-notch coaching from some of the district's most respected
coaches and quartets. And to top off a wonderful weekend,
Saturday night after the show we perform for the public, we have
a huge bonfire next to the bay where we sing and socialize
(something we're very good at) until the wee hours of the
morning.
This annual event was started 18 years ago with maybe one
dozen barbershoppers attending. The retreat for 2005 was
cancelled because Hurricane Ivan happened to blow through this
area a few days before — kinda messed things up a bit. In
recent years, the Timpoochee group formed the Panhandle Chorus,
composed of over one hundred barbershoppers from Pensacola,
Mobile, Fort Walton Beach, Tallahassee, and Jacksonville.
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